The Mets added a piece for the back end of their rotation, signing former Angels starter Griffin Canning to a one year, $4.25 million contract, with up to an additional $1 million in bonus opportunities. Canning, drafted in the second round of the 2018 draft, made 94 starts for the Angels from 2019-2024, highlighted by a Gold Glove in 2020.
After coming up in late April of 2019, he was shut down in August with elbow inflammation. After his aforementioned Gold Glove season in 2020, Canning missed part of the 2021 and all of the 2022 season with lower back issues stemming from a stress fracture.